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Read More >>The Spring lacing of deciduous tree foliage is about to begin in a day or two here in our Twin City landscape gardening area. It's the time when our major evergreen conifers no longer overwhelm our winter's six month landscape dominating the deciduous ghosts of Winter. My 60 foot Red Maple is already overwhelmed with young leaves and countless bloom clusters causing the first sign of casting its shade. A taller cottonwood, one-third of...
Read More >>Chionodoxa, Siberian Squill, Crocus, Puschkinia, Eranthis, the early tulips, even certain Narcissus are all bulbs in bloom as of this date in my grounds. Most of the Snowdrops have already passed their time. These Dutch bulbs, as they are called, are sold by the bulb in September and October when they are planted for the coming season bloom. Hyacinths, Ornithagalum and most of the taller tulips and Narcissus usually arrive in bloom two weeks or...
Read More >>There can be no doubt that a well manicured lawn on one's outside home grounds is as beautiful as a stunning Oriental Carpet is on the inside of a person's domain. Yet, if left alone in a vast room of nothing else, how winsome can they really ever be if they lie alone in their space? One carpet requires great human effort to maintain its beauty, which actually includes another art form, the clipping of the...
Read More >>Fewer and fewer Americans engage in 'monkeying around ones grounds' these days. Fewer and fewer Americans can identify five plants growing on their property or grounds near by. Fewer and fewer people bother tending to 'gardens'. More and ever more Americans live all of their lives just a few feet above asphalt. Fewer and fewer Americans have children.....We now import them for political as well as economic reasons. Botany is no longer taught at school....at...
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